A Man's Place: Annie Ernaux

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Verirken de tıpkı Svetlana Aleksiyeviç’e verirken söylediğiniz gibi, “yeni bir edebi tür yarattığı için” verin ödülü. The next time I feel like whining about my lot in life I think I’ll just grab this book and read a few pages and that will set me straight.

As such A Man's Place is more a series of vignettes and flashbacks, combined with later insights from her own life, which add context and clarity without fabricating the details. Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. I read this one when the French was just a little bit too hard, so it was a lot of work, but worthwhile.The author also touches upon the inadequacy of language itself to convey our memories, our feelings. More than that, it acknowledges how much her father (and perhaps Ernaux herself) are influenced by place, and the roots they both come from. There may be another perspective too, we keep on stacking repositories of memories throughout our life, with older ones getting diminished with time.

Jezik oboje je obuzdan, suzdržan, bez viškova, kako zbog želje za što većoj preciznosti, koja je odlika najvećeg književnog umeća, tako i, prosto, iz nemogućnosti da se napiše sve ono što bi se moralo napisati. His father discovered the world through an army in Paris wherein the uniform provided a sense of equality among his companions from all over France. While the use of gender in French grammar makes it both difficult, and potentially quite problematic, it also adds something - especially in situations like this where more can be read into it.Apetecia-me falar, escrever acerca de meu pai, da sua vida e da distância que surgira entre ele e eu durante a adolescência. S’autoriser les chemins de traverse et les pas de côté, parler surtout de livres, donc, mais ne pas s’interdire d’autres horizons.